London wins!!

[Lambert Simnel]

London will host the 2012 Olympics.

Personally, I'm really pleased, though the transport system (which is a worry at the best of times) will be a serious threat to a successful games.

What do others think ?

 

[Evertonian]

Personally I'm also pleased. While I'm not that fussed about some of the sports themselves (i won't be snapping up tickets for the handball competition), a lot of proposed improvements to London's transport were predicated on winning the games, so they'll happen now, and some of the events are scheduled to take place within a few hundred yards of where I live, which is quite exciting.

 

[Hitro]

Cool. Three threads about this.

Personally I don't care that much about this. It's not a World Cup or something like that...

 

[King Alexander]

Congratulations.

 

[phoenix_night]

Tennis at Wimbledon will be cool.

 

[Dell19]

So Lambert was the first poster to obey the rules, I thought the thread should go in OT and then eventually get moved into Sports Talk after half a day

 

[Hitro]

So Lambert was the first poster to obey the rules, I thought the thread should go in OT and then eventually get moved into Sports Talk after half a day

The decision is more about politics and economics than about sport.

 

[Dell19]

But its ultimately sports related

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

Yay! Congrats to London for getting the Olympics!

 

[Hitro]

But its ultimately sports related

Everything is ultimately sports related.

 

[chancellor_dan]

People seem to be missing the point of the whole thing...Getting it right up the French!

 

[Suppersalmon]

YESSS absolutly great from being behind so much to win it is absolutly great

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

People seem to be missing the point of the whole thing...Getting it right up the French!

I agree. I've seen alot of people post on here about the needless 'French-Bashing' goes on and then their President, who is the appitome of French Arrogance, makes snide remarks about Britian like he did not long ago.

If I was Tony Blair, I'd be flashing the V's at him from across the table at G8!

 

[chancellor_dan]

Ironically this comes on 200th anniversary of Trafalgar...

It would have been unbearable if a smug Chirac arrived at Gleneagles ....but now i suspect he'll be hiding in the corner.

 

[chancellor_dan]

Just seen Parisian mobs practically molesting a BBC reporter and disrupting one of his interviews. One could hardly imagine the British public behaving in such a way.

 

[Hitro]

Just seen Parisian mobs practically molesting a BBC reporter and disrupting one of his interviews. One could hardly imagine the British public behaving in such a way.

Good one.

 

[Volum]

Anyways congrats to London, i think u deserved it

 

[classical_hero]

Congratulations. At least this thread is civil.

 

[Scratcher]

Hot off the press,
a photo from Paris,
What a shame

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

Congratulations. At least this thread is civil.

This thread is civil? Where are all the troll threads?